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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said he intends to nominate Olivia Trusty to fill an upcoming vacancy at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Trusty will be nominated to the role of commissioner at the FCC, Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

“Olivia is currently the policy director on the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, where she has fought tirelessly to grow the economy, empower innovation and reignite the American Dream,” Trump wrote. “She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Georgetown University. Olivia will work with our incredible new chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, to cut regulations at a record pace, protect free speech and ensure every American has access to affordable and fast internet.”

Trusty is a long-time employee...

President-Elect Donald Trump has chosen FCC commissioner Brendan Carr to be its next chairman.

Carr, who is the senior Republican member of the commission, was first nominated to the FCC in 2017 by Trump.

“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held back our Economy,” Trump said in a statement announcing the news. “He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America’s Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America.”

Carr made headlines earlier this month, just two days before the election, when he claimed that Kamala Harris‘ appearance on Saturday Night Live violated the “equal time” rule. For its part, NBC officially informed the FCC that the Democratic presidential candidate appeared on SNL “without charge” for one minute and 30 seconds, officially triggering a window for other campaigns to request time from the broadcaster.

Director Jeremiah KippThe Sadist was previously known as Swine and the film stars make-up phenom Tom Savini (The Dead Matter). The script has been penned by Fangoria writer Jeremiah Kipp and The Sadist will be Kipp's debut in the director's chair. The first trailer for this feature shows a crazed Savini taunting and tormenting hunters in the bush. Maniacal eyes aside, this independent project has potential despite the challenges of a small budget. No word on the release, but low budget horror fans can look at the clip inside.

The synopsis for The Sadist here:

"The Sadist stars Savini as a combat veteran with serious psychological damage who stalks campers and hunters in the woods" (Fangoria).

Director: Jeremiah Kipp.

Writers: Frank Wihbey, Joe Pisani and Pedro Ondrush.

Cast: Tom Savini, Mackenzie Christine Hawkins, Miguel Lopez, Jerry Murdock, Santo Fazio, Zoe Daelman Chlanda, Carl Burrows and Tom Reid.

The trailer for...

I watched this very cool and creepy short film the other day called Contact from writer/director Jeremiah Kipp. Contact stars Zoe Daelman Chlanda, Robb Leigh Davis, Katherine O'Sullivan, Tom Reid, Danny Lopes and Alan Rowe Kelly and includes a very talented production team.

Contact is a 10 minute black and white short felt more like a full-length feature. It starts out in what is an uneasy and uncomfortable setting then moves to the main story which to me focuses on drug use and finally ends back where it all begins but with forgiveness and redemption. It feels like a Twilight Zone episode on drugs!

I personally think everyone should check this short film out, for one reason or another it kind of has a message for a lot of us!

Click on the image below to watch Contact.

 

 http://www.contact.shroggle.com/

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Fango contributor Jeremiah Kipp sent along some photos and info on Contact, a new genre short film he created for New York City’s annual Sinister Six festival, hosted by Bryan Enk every October. “This is the final incarnation of the fest,” Kipp tells us, “and since I kicked it off four years ago with my movie The Pod, I decided to go all-out and do another harrowing drug/body-horror project.”

This year’s Sinister Six will be presented Saturday, Oct. 31 at 8:15 p.m. and Sunday, November 1 at 5:15 p.m. at Millennium Film Workshop (66 East 4th Street). Kipp describes Contact, shot in black-and-white hi-def, as “a dark urban fairy tale, a kind of reboot of The Pod distilled down to the most intense, graphic elements. I thought of the movie as an emotional hand grenade about a young woman [Zoë Daelman Chlanda, from Alan Rowe Kelly’s I’LL Bury You Tomorrow and Bart Mastronardi’s Vindication] who runs away from suburbia to engage in the...